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Metabolism

2012-07-26T14:07:51Z

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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam" class="section" sec_index="1" parent="compilation" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam"><h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2>
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<div id="SB_Canto_2" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 2"><h3>SB Canto 2</h3>
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<div id="SB21029_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="353" link="SB 2.10.29" link_text="SB 2.10.29">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.10.29|SB 2.10.29, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When there was a desire to have food and drink, the abdomen and the intestines and also the arteries became manifested. The rivers and seas are the source of their sustenance and metabolism.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>The controlling deities of the intestines are the rivers, and those of the arteries, the seas. Fulfillment of the belly with food and drink is the cause of sustenance, and the metabolism of the food and drink replaces the waste of the bodily energies. Therefore, the body's health is dependent on healthy actions of the intestines and the arteries. The rivers and the seas, being the controlling deities of the two, keep the intestines and the arteries in healthy order.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_3" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 3"><h3>SB Canto 3</h3>
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<div id="SB32329_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="930" link="SB 3.23.29" link_text="SB 3.23.29">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.23.29|SB 3.23.29, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Āsavam is an Āyur-vedic medical preparation; it is not a liquor. It is especially made from drugs and is meant to improve metabolism for the healthy condition of the body.</p>
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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" class="section" sec_index="2" parent="compilation" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta"><h2>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta</h2>
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<div id="CC_Adi-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Adi-lila"><h3>CC Adi-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCAdi177_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1947" link="CC Adi 17.7" link_text="CC Adi 17.7">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.7|CC Adi 17.7, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">According to Āyur-vedic treatment, the entire physiological system is conducted by three elements, namely vāyu, pitta and kapha (air, bile and mucus). Secretions within the body transform into other secretions like blood, urine and stool, but if there are disturbances in the metabolism, the secretions turn into kapha (mucus) by the influence of the air within the body. According to the Āyur-vedic system, when the secretion of bile and formation of mucus disturb the air circulating within the body, fifty-nine varieties of diseases may occur. One such disease is craziness.</p>
<p>On the plea of disturbance of the bodily air and metabolism, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu acted as if crazy. Thus in His school He began to explain the grammar of verbs through Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Explaining everything in grammar in relationship to Kṛṣṇa, the Lord induced His students to refrain from worldly education, for it is better to become Kṛṣṇa conscious and in this way attain the highest perfectional platform of education.</p>
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<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2>
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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Lectures" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures"><h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonSB126RomeMay241974_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="43" link="Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- Rome, May 24, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- Rome, May 24, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- Rome, May 24, 1974|Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- Rome, May 24, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So in the Naimiṣāraṇya, the resolution was made like this, svanuṣṭhitasya dharmasya. So everyone has got his dharma, particular duty: brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya. So one must be intelligent enough whether by his, by the discharge of his particular duty he has satisfied Kṛṣṇa. Then he has satisfied Kṛṣṇa. Just like the different parts of the body, their duty is how to keep this body fit. That means to keep the body satisfied. Fit means when everything, all the metabolism, organization of the body, is going nicely, then it is fit. And as soon as there is some discrepancies in the regular process... There are so many processes going on within the body. Kapha-pitta-vāyuḥ. There is very good mechanical arrangement. So the brain means to keep this mechanical arrangement very busy and going on nicely.</p>
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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Lectures" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures"><h3>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonCCMadhyalila251931SanFranciscoJanuary201967_0" class="quote" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" book="Lec" index="114" link="Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 25.19-31 -- San Francisco, January 20, 1967" link_text="Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 25.19-31 -- San Francisco, January 20, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 25.19-31 -- San Francisco, January 20, 1967|Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 25.19-31 -- San Francisco, January 20, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You're studying, what is called? Physiological condition, anatomical condition, and metabolism, this or that. There are so many big, big names. But real, the proprietor of the body... The doctors are sitting, analyzing. But as soon as the soul passes, they cannot explain what happened, what happened to this meta..., I mean to say, anatomy and physiology. They stand fools. So this is going on. The essence of the thing, the essence of the manifestation, cosmic manifestation they have missed. They're simply analyzing the outward cover. That's all.</p>
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<div id="General_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Lectures" text="General Lectures"><h3>General Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureSeattleSeptember271968_0" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="18" link="Lecture -- Seattle, September 27, 1968" link_text="Lecture -- Seattle, September 27, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture -- Seattle, September 27, 1968|Lecture -- Seattle, September 27, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Just like when there is some disarrangement of the different functions of metabolism within this body, we get fever, we get some pain, headache—so many things—so these miseries are called ādhyātmic, pertaining to the body. And another part of this ādhyātmic misery is due to the mind. Suppose I have suffered a great loss. So the mind is not in good condition. So this is also suffering. So for diseased condition of the body or some mental dissatisfaction there are miseries.</p>
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1973 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1973 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="MorningWalkAtCheviotHillsGolfCourseMay151973LosAngeles_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="29" link="Morning Walk At Cheviot Hills Golf Course -- May 15, 1973, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk At Cheviot Hills Golf Course -- May 15, 1973, Los Angeles">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk At Cheviot Hills Golf Course -- May 15, 1973, Los Angeles|Morning Walk At Cheviot Hills Golf Course -- May 15, 1973, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: Still they want to sense it by some...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Sense, that is... Any rascal can sense that here is living energy. That is spirit soul. Just like if you inject one grain of poison and immediately he dies, does it require how he dies? That one, not one grain. Even one hundredth part of one grain, venomous poison, how it acts? So even nobody can see it, when the snake bites, nobody can see where is that... How he dies?</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: They will explain that by..., it blocks some of the metabolic paths...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's all right, but it is acting. That is my point. You can explain in your nonsense way, this, so many things. But I see that because that very little portion of poison is there, immediately he dies. Why don't you see the action?</p>
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<div id="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationMarch21975Atlanta_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="19" link="Room Conversation -- March 2, 1975, Atlanta" link_text="Room Conversation -- March 2, 1975, Atlanta">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- March 2, 1975, Atlanta|Room Conversation -- March 2, 1975, Atlanta]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: But they want to study more some of the intermediate stages like this metabolism in some...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Mother's, mother's body? No?</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Any system, mother's body or any living systems.</p>
<p>Guest (1): What I can do is to study the growth and differentiation of the nervous system, different parts of the nervous system and how it is affected by lack of protein in the diet of the mother.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is medical science.</p>
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<div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="LifeComesFromLifeSlideshowDiscussionsJuly31976WashingtonDC_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="180" link="'Life Comes From Life' Slideshow Discussions -- July 3, 1976, Washington, D.C." link_text="'Life Comes From Life' Slideshow Discussions -- July 3, 1976, Washington, D.C.">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:'Life Comes From Life' Slideshow Discussions -- July 3, 1976, Washington, D.C.|'Life Comes From Life' Slideshow Discussions -- July 3, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: In this connection, one quality that is quite visible is the, that matter in association with life, there is a constant flow of matter that biologists describe as metabolism. Means we eat some food, and then prasādam is digested in specific ways by so many chemical reactions in the body. But that happens only...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is also stated, ahaṁ vaiśvānaro bhūtvā pacāmy annaṁ catur-vidham. That digestion is also helped by God. Is it not? Ahaṁ vaiśvānaro bhūtvā pacāmy annaṁ catur-vidham. Is it not in the Bhagavad-gītā?</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Yes, "I am the fire of digestion."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
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<div id="LifeComesFromLifeSlideshowDiscussionsJuly31976WashingtonDC_1" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="180" link="'Life Comes From Life' Slideshow Discussions -- July 3, 1976, Washington, D.C." link_text="'Life Comes From Life' Slideshow Discussions -- July 3, 1976, Washington, D.C.">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:'Life Comes From Life' Slideshow Discussions -- July 3, 1976, Washington, D.C.|'Life Comes From Life' Slideshow Discussions -- July 3, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Rūpānuga: So Śrīla Prabhupāda, sometimes only a single symptom of life may be demonstrated. Like in crystal there is some growth only, with no other manifestation. Then the crystal may stop growing. Just like a tree...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Stops growing means dead.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Even if the stone is growing, there is no metabolism.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is different thing. Machine..., we have said that the body is the machine. Then all mechanical arrangement may not be the same in many machines. But it is a machine.</p>
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<div id="LifeComesFromLifeSlideshowDiscussionsJuly31976WashingtonDC_2" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="180" link="'Life Comes From Life' Slideshow Discussions -- July 3, 1976, Washington, D.C." link_text="'Life Comes From Life' Slideshow Discussions -- July 3, 1976, Washington, D.C.">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:'Life Comes From Life' Slideshow Discussions -- July 3, 1976, Washington, D.C.|'Life Comes From Life' Slideshow Discussions -- July 3, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">These protein structures that Svarūpa Dāmodara was pointing out, it's not just any old structure, but it performs a very specific function within the cell, just like a little automatic machine of some kind. So we'd like to argue that the chance and molecular forces theory won't explain things like this, but to say that there is an intelligent designer would be a sensible explanation. The next slide, this shows some of the complexities of what goes on inside a cell, and it's only a fraction of what is there. It's hard to read, but each little bit of print refers to some very complicated chemical reaction involving big molecules like the one in the last slide. So there are hundreds of reactions like that on this one page, and this page is one out of four from a chart that we found detailing some of these things. This metabolism goes on even in the most primitive cells like this bacterium, and yet it's only a fraction of the total of what goes on. The scientists will admit they've only made a fractional study of all that's going on in these cells. So that kind of argument is one line of reasoning we'd like to present. (another slide) Now this refers to another thing. We'd like to describe the concept of consciousness as being something not material—nonphysical and nonchemical. And it turns out that actually in modern physics that's already a basic principle, and it's been that way for the last fifty or sixty years, but that's not widely admitted or taught in the schools.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationJuly101976NewYork_3" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="204" link="Room Conversation -- July 10, 1976, New York" link_text="Room Conversation -- July 10, 1976, New York">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- July 10, 1976, New York|Room Conversation -- July 10, 1976, New York]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Hari-śauri: Yes, a very low conscious level. The metabolism is very much slowed down. The breathing and heart rate and everything goes right down, and they stay like that, completely relaxed, for twenty minutes, and then for a few minutes they come out. That is the...</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We can also do that; we'll hit them with our shoes. (laughter) For twenty minutes they can go unconsciousness. Free, we don't charge.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: This opening comment in this magazine is very good, it says, "What is surprising about the International Society for Krishna Consciousness is not its conquest of the West, the USA in particular. The cultural impact of this institution, borne on the shoulders of Westerners in the main, has already reached amazing proportions in India."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is my policy.</p>
<p>Devotee (1): That's nice.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Whew. That's why they are afraid of you in India, Prabhupāda. The government is very much afraid.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, yes, government is alarmed.</p>
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Vipracitti

2012-07-25T15:09:25Z

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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam" class="section" sec_index="1" parent="compilation" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam"><h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2>
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<div id="SB_Canto_1" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 1"><h3>SB Canto 1</h3>
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<div id="SB1159_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="580" link="SB 1.15.9" link_text="SB 1.15.9">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.15.9|SB 1.15.9, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Jarāsandha was a very powerful king of Magadha, and the history of his birth and activities is also very interesting. His father, King Bṛhadratha, was also a very prosperous and powerful king of Magadha, but he had no son, although he married two daughters of the King of Kāśī. Being disappointed in not getting a son from either of the two queens, the King, along with his wives, left home to live in the forest for austerities, but in the forest he was blessed by one great ṛṣi to have a son, and he gave him one mango to be eaten by the queens. The queens did so and were very soon pregnant. The King was very happy to see the queens bearing children, but when the ripe time approached, the queens delivered one child in two parts, one from each of the queens' wombs. The two parts were thrown in the forest, where a great she-demon used to live, and she was glad to have some delicate flesh and blood from the newly born child. Out of curiosity she joined the two parts, and the child became complete and regained life. The she-demon was known as Jarā, and being compassionate on the childless King, she went to the King and presented him with the nice child, The King was very pleased with the she-demon and wanted to reward her according to her desire. The she-demon expressed her desire that the child be named after her, and thus the child was surnamed Jarāsandha, or one who was joined by Jarā, the she-demon. In fact, this Jarāsandha was born as one of the parts and parcels of the demon Vipracitti. The saint by whose benedictions the queens bore the child was called Candra Kauśika, who foretold of the child before his father Bṛhadratha.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_6" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 6"><h3>SB Canto 6</h3>
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<div id="SB662931_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="254" link="SB 6.6.29-31" link_text="SB 6.6.29-31">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.6.29-31|SB 6.6.29-31, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Gandharvas were born from the womb of Ariṣṭā, and animals whose hooves are not split, such as the horse, were born from the womb of Kāṣṭhā. O King, from the womb of Danu came sixty-one sons, of whom these eighteen were very important: Dvimūrdhā, Śambara, Ariṣṭa, Hayagrīva, Vibhāvasu, Ayomukha, Śaṅkuśirā, Svarbhānu, Kapila, Aruṇa, Pulomā, Vṛṣaparvā, Ekacakra, Anutāpana, Dhūmrakeśa, Virūpākṣa, Vipracitti and Durjaya.</p>
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<div id="SB6637_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="257" link="SB 6.6.37" link_text="SB 6.6.37">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.6.37|SB 6.6.37, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In his wife Siṁhikā, Vipracitti begot one hundred and one sons, of whom the eldest is Rāhu and the others are the one hundred Ketus. All of them attained positions in the influential planets.</p>
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<div id="SB6101922_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="402" link="SB 6.10.19-22" link_text="SB 6.10.19-22">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.10.19-22|SB 6.10.19-22, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Many hundreds and thousands of demons, demi-demons, Yakṣas, Rākṣasas (man-eaters) and others, headed by Sumāli and Māli, resisted the armies of King Indra, which even death personified cannot easily overcome. Among the demons were Namuci, Śambara, Anarvā, Dvimūrdhā, Ṛṣabha, Asura, Hayagrīva, Śaṅkuśirā, Vipracitti, Ayomukha, Pulomā, Vṛṣaparvā, Praheti, Heti and Utkala. Roaring tumultuously and fearlessly like lions, these invincible demons, all dressed in golden ornaments, gave pain to the demigods with weapons like clubs, bludgeons, arrows, barbed darts, mallets and lances.</p>
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<div id="SB61031_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="411" link="SB 6.10.31" link_text="SB 6.10.31">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.10.31|SB 6.10.31, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">According to his position and the time and circumstances, Vṛtrāsura, the hero among heroes, spoke words that were much to be appreciated by thoughtful men. He called to the heroes of the demons, "O Vipracitti! O Namuci! O Pulomā! O Maya, Anarvā and Śambara! Please hear me and do not flee."</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_7" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 7"><h3>SB Canto 7</h3>
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<div id="SB7245_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="51" link="SB 7.2.4-5" link_text="SB 7.2.4-5">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.2.4-5|SB 7.2.4-5, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O Dānavas and Daityas! O Dvimūrdha, Tryakṣa, Śambara and Śatabāhu ! O Hayagrīva, Namuci, Pāka and Ilvala! O Vipracitti, Puloman, Śakuna and other demons! All of you, kindly hear me attentively and then act according to my words without delay.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_8" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 8"><h3>SB Canto 8</h3>
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<div id="SB8101924_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="316" link="SB 8.10.19-24" link_text="SB 8.10.19-24">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.10.19-24|SB 8.10.19-24, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Surrounding Mahārāja Bali on all sides were the commanders and captains of the demons, sitting on their respective chariots. Among them were the following demons: Namuci, Śambara, Bāṇa, Vipracitti, Ayomukha, Dvimūrdhā, Kālanābha, Praheti, Heti, Ilvala, Śakuni, Bhūtasantāpa, Vajradaṁṣṭra, Virocana, Hayagrīva, Śaṅkuśirā, Kapila, Meghadundubhi, Tāraka, Cakradṛk, Śumbha, Niśumbha, Jambha, Utkala, Ariṣṭa, Ariṣṭanemi, Tripurādhipa, Maya, the sons of Puloma, the Kāleyas and Nivātakavaca. All of these demons had been deprived of their share of the nectar and had shared merely in the labor of churning the ocean. Now, they fought against the demigods, and to encourage their armies, they made a tumultuous sound like the roaring of lions and blew loudly on conchshells. Balabhit, Lord Indra, upon seeing this situation of his ferocious rivals, became extremely angry.</p>
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<div id="SB82119_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="733" link="SB 8.21.19" link_text="SB 8.21.19">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.21.19|SB 8.21.19, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O Vipracitti, O Rāhu, O Nemi, please hear my words! Don't fight. Stop immediately, for the present time is not in our favor.</p>
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Royal (CC)

2012-01-15T20:13:06Z

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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" class="section" sec_index="2" parent="compilation" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta"><h2>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta</h2>
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<div id="CC_Adi-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Adi-lila"><h3>CC Adi-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCAdi339_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="265" link="CC Adi 3.39" link_text="CC Adi 3.39">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 3.39|CC Adi 3.39, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"In the Dvāpara-yuga the Personality of Godhead appears in a blackish hue. He is dressed in yellow, He holds His own weapons, and He is decorated with the Kaustubha jewel and marks of Śrīvatsa. This is how His symptoms are described."</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>This is a verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (11.5.27), spoken by Saint Karabhājana, one of the nine royal mystics who explained to King Nimi the different features of the Lord in different ages.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1084_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1338" link="CC Adi 10.84" link_text="CC Adi 10.84">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.84|CC Adi 10.84, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Madhya-līlā, Chapter Nineteen, the device adopted by Sanātana Gosvāmī to get free from government service is described. He served a notice of sickness to the Nawab, the Muslim governor, but actually he was studying Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam with brāhmaṇas at home. The Nawab received information of this through a royal physician, and he immediately went to see Sanātana Gosvāmī to discover his intentions. The Nawab requested Sanātana to accompany him on an expedition to Orissa, but when Sanātana Gosvāmī refused, the Nawab ordered that he be imprisoned.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1141_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1454" link="CC Adi 11.41" link_text="CC Adi 11.41">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 11.41|CC Adi 11.41, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">“Uddhāraṇa Datta Ṭhākura was the manager of the estate of a big zamindar in Naihāṭī, about one and a half miles north of Katwa. The relics of this royal family are still visible near the Dāiṅhāṭa station. Since Uddhāraṇa Datta Ṭhākura was the manager of the estate, it was also known as Uddhāraṇa-pura. Uddhāraṇa Datta Ṭhākura installed Nitāi-Gaura Deities that were later brought to the house of the zamindar, which was known as Vanaoyārībāda. Śrīla Uddhāraṇa Datta Ṭhākura remained a householder throughout his life. His father's name was Śrīkara Datta, his mother's name was Bhadrāvatī, and his son's name was Śrīnivāsa Datta.”</p>
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<div id="CC_Madhya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Madhya-lila"><h3>CC Madhya-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCMadhya179_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="78" link="CC Madhya 1.79" link_text="CC Madhya 1.79">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.79|CC Madhya 1.79, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">She thought of Him in the calm and quiet atmosphere of Vṛndāvana, dressed as a cowherd boy. But at Kurukṣetra He was in a royal dress and was accompanied by elephants, horses and crowds of men. Thus the atmosphere was not congenial for Their meeting.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya182_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="81" link="CC Madhya 1.82" link_text="CC Madhya 1.82">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.82|CC Madhya 1.82, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In his Anubhāṣya, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura comments, "The gopīs are purely engaged in the service of the Lord without motive. They are not captivated by the opulence of Kṛṣṇa, nor by the understanding that He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead." Naturally the gopīs were inclined to love Kṛṣṇa, for He was an attractive young boy of Vṛndāvana village. Being village girls, they were not very much attracted to the field of Kurukṣetra, where Kṛṣṇa was present with elephants, horses and royal dress. Indeed, they did not very much appreciate Kṛṣṇa in that atmosphere. Kṛṣṇa was not attracted by the opulence or personal beauty of the gopīs but by their pure devotional service. Similarly, the gopīs were attracted to Kṛṣṇa as a cowherd boy, not in sophisticated guise. Lord Kṛṣṇa is inconceivably powerful. To understand Him, great yogīs and saintly persons give up all material engagements and meditate upon Him.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya4101_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="698" link="CC Madhya 4.101" link_text="CC Madhya 4.101">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 4.101|CC Madhya 4.101, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">One very rich kṣatriya of the royal order constructed a temple, someone made cooking utensils, and someone constructed boundary walls.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya911_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1727" link="CC Madhya 9.11" link_text="CC Madhya 9.11">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.11|CC Madhya 9.11, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It may be noted that these particular Deities of Rāma and Sītā have been worshiped from the time of King Ikṣvāku. Indeed, They were worshiped by the royal princes even before the appearance of Lord Rāmacandra. Later, during Lord Rāmacandra's presence, the Deities were worshiped by Lakṣmaṇa. It is said that just three months before his disappearance, Śrī Madhvācārya received these Deities and installed them in the Uḍupī temple. Since then the Deities have been worshiped by the Madhvācārya-sampradāya at that monastery. As far as the Śrī Vaiṣṇavas are concerned, beginning with Rāmānujācārya, they also worshiped Deities of Sītā-Rāma. Sītā-Rāma Deities are also being worshiped in Tirupati and other places. From the Śrī Rāmānuja-sampradāya there is another branch known as Rāmānandī or Rāmāt, and the followers of that branch also worship Deities of Sītā-Rāma very rigidly. The Rāmānuja-sampradāya Vaiṣṇavas prefer the worship of Lord Rāmacandra to that of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1155_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2324" link="CC Madhya 11.55" link_text="CC Madhya 11.55">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 11.55|CC Madhya 11.55, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“On that Ratha-yātrā festival day, after dancing before the Lord, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu will enter the Guṇḍicā garden. At that time you should go there alone, without your royal dress.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1316_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2746" link="CC Madhya 13.16" link_text="CC Madhya 13.16">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.16|CC Madhya 13.16, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The King sprinkled the road with sandalwood-scented water. Although he was the owner of the royal throne, he engaged in menial service for the sake of Lord Jagannātha.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya13129_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2859" link="CC Madhya 13.129" link_text="CC Madhya 13.129">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.129|CC Madhya 13.129, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Here at Kurukṣetra You are dressed like a royal prince, accompanied by great warriors, but in Vṛndāvana You appeared just like an ordinary cowherd boy, accompanied only by Your beautiful flute.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya13157_7" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2887" link="CC Madhya 13.157" link_text="CC Madhya 13.157">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.157|CC Madhya 13.157, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“I wish to protect the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana from the attacks of My enemies. That is why I remain in My kingdom; otherwise I am indifferent to My royal position. Whatever wives, sons and wealth I maintain in the kingdom are only for the satisfaction of the Yadus.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya145_8" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2945" link="CC Madhya 14.5" link_text="CC Madhya 14.5">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 14.5|CC Madhya 14.5, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Following Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya's instructions, the King had given up his royal dress. He now entered the garden in the dress of a Vaiṣṇava.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya15120_9" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3316" link="CC Madhya 15.120" link_text="CC Madhya 15.120">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 15.120|CC Madhya 15.120, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Mukunda dāsa externally appears to be a royal physician engaged in governmental service, but internally he has a deep love for Kṛṣṇa. Who can understand his love?</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya15120_10" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3316" link="CC Madhya 15.120" link_text="CC Madhya 15.120">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 15.120|CC Madhya 15.120, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Unless Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu discloses the fact, no one can understand who is actually a great devotee of the Lord engaged in His service. It is therefore said in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 23.39|CC Madhya 23.39]]), tāṅra vākya, kriyā, mudrā vijñeha nā bujhaya: even the most perfect and learned scholar cannot understand a Vaiṣṇava's activities. A Vaiṣṇava may be engaged in governmental service or in a professional business so that externally one cannot understand his position. Internally, however, he may be a nitya-siddha Vaiṣṇava—that is, an eternally liberated Vaiṣṇava. Externally Mukunda dāsa was a royal physician, but internally he was the most liberated paramahaṁsa devotee. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu knew this very well, but ordinary men could not understand it, for the activities and plans of a Vaiṣṇava cannot be understood by ordinary men. However, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His representative understand everything about a devotee, even though the devotee may externally pretend to be an ordinary householder and professional businessman.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya15121_11" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3317" link="CC Madhya 15.121" link_text="CC Madhya 15.121">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 15.121|CC Madhya 15.121, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“One day Mukunda dāsa, the royal physician, was seated with the Muslim King on a high platform and was telling the King about medical treatment.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya15124_13" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3320" link="CC Madhya 15.124" link_text="CC Madhya 15.124">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 15.124|CC Madhya 15.124, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“The King, fearing that the royal physician had been killed, personally descended and brought him to consciousness.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1915_14" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="4254" link="CC Madhya 19.15" link_text="CC Madhya 19.15">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.15|CC Madhya 19.15, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">On the pretext of bad health, Sanātana Gosvāmī remained home. Thus he gave up government service and did not go to the royal court.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya24348_15" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5664" link="CC Madhya 24.348" link_text="CC Madhya 24.348">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 24.348|CC Madhya 24.348, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī, the elder brother of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, was a most important minister in the government of Hussain Shah, the ruler of Bengal, and he was considered a most brilliant gem in that assembly. He possessed all the opulences of a royal position, but he gave up everything just to accept the youthful goddess of renunciation. Although he externally appeared to be a mendicant who had renounced everything, he was filled with the pleasure of devotional service within his heart. Thus he can be compared to a deep lake covered with moss. He was the object of pleasure for all the devotees who knew the science of devotional service.</p>
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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" class="section" sec_index="2" parent="compilation" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta"><h2>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta</h2>
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<div id="CC_Preface_and_Introduction" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Preface and Introduction"><h3>CC Preface and Introduction</h3>
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<div id="CCPreface_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Preface_and_Introduction" book="CC" index="4" link="CC Preface" link_text="CC Preface">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Preface|CC Preface]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">No one can bring the activities of the mind and senses to a stop, but one can purify these activities through a change in consciousness. This change is indicated in the Bhagavad-gītā (2.39), where Kṛṣṇa tells Arjuna of the knowledge of yoga whereby one can work without fruitive results: "O son of Pṛthā, when you act in such knowledge you can free yourself from the bondage of works." A human being is sometimes restricted in sense gratification due to certain circumstances, such as disease, but such proscriptions are for the less intelligent. Without knowing the actual process by which the mind and senses can be controlled, less intelligent men may try to stop the mind and senses by force, but ultimately they give in to them and are carried away by the waves of sense gratification.</p>
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<div id="CC_Adi-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Adi-lila"><h3>CC Adi-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCAdi356_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="282" link="CC Adi 3.56" link_text="CC Adi 3.56">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 3.56|CC Adi 3.56, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">If someone tries to describe Him as being of blackish complexion, the next adjective (tviṣā akṛṣṇam) immediately restricts him.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi518_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="622" link="CC Adi 5.18" link_text="CC Adi 5.18">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 5.18|CC Adi 5.18, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Like the transcendental body of Lord Kṛṣṇa, Gokula is all-pervading, infinite and supreme. It expands both above and below, without any restriction.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi541_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="644" link="CC Adi 5.41" link_text="CC Adi 5.41">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 5.41|CC Adi 5.41, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">There must be a distinction between cause and effect. For example, a pot is distinct from the earth from which it is made, and therefore we can ascertain that the earth is the cause and the pot is the effect. Without such distinctions, there is no meaning to cause and effect. Furthermore, the followers of the Pañcarātric principles do not accept any differences in knowledge and qualities between Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna and Aniruddha. The devotees accept all these expansions to be one, but why should they restrict oneness to these quadruple expansions? Certainly we should not do so, for all living entities, from Brahmā to the insignificant ant, are expansions of Vāsudeva, as accepted in all the śrutis and smṛtis.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi776_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1022" link="CC Adi 7.76" link_text="CC Adi 7.76">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.76|CC Adi 7.76, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In order to get quick relief from all these contaminations, it is required that one engage in the worship of the Lord in the temple. The worship of the Deity in the temple is essential to reduce one's restlessness due to the contaminations of conditioned life. Thus Nārada, in his pāñcarātrikī-vidhi, and other great sages have sometimes stressed that since every conditioned soul has a bodily concept of life aimed at sense enjoyment, to restrict this sense enjoyment the rules and regulations for worshiping the Deity in the temple are essential. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has described that the holy name of the Lord can be chanted by liberated souls, but almost all the souls we have to initiate are conditioned. It is advised that one chant the holy name of the Lord without offenses and according to the regulative principles, yet due to their past bad habits they violate these rules and regulations. Thus the regulative principles for worship of the Deity are also simultaneously essential.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi938_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1237" link="CC Adi 9.38" link_text="CC Adi 9.38">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 9.38|CC Adi 9.38, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The production of fruits and flowers depends not upon our will but upon the supreme will of the Personality of Godhead. If He is pleased, He can supply enough fruits, flowers, etc., but if people are atheistic and godless, then nature, by His will, restricts the supply of food. For example, in several provinces in India, especially Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and other adjoining states, there is sometimes a great scarcity of foodstuffs due to lack of rainfall. So-called scientists and economists cannot do anything about this. Therefore, to solve all problems, one must seek the good will of the Supreme Personality of Godhead by becoming Kṛṣṇa conscious and worshiping Him regularly in devotional service.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1084_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1338" link="CC Adi 10.84" link_text="CC Adi 10.84">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.84|CC Adi 10.84, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Our family gotra, or original genealogical line, is the Gautama-gotra, or line of disciples of Gautama Muni, and our surname is De. But due to their accepting the posts of zamindars in the Muslim government, they received the title Mullik. Similarly, Rūpa, Sanātana and Vallabha were also given the title Mullik. Mullik means "lord." Just as the English government gives rich and respectable persons the title "lord," so the Muslims give the title Mullik to rich, respectable families that have intimate connections with the government. Thus the title Mullik is found not only among the Muslims but also among the Hindu aristocracy. This title is not restricted to a particular family but is given to different families and castes. The qualifications for receiving it are wealth and respectability.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1458_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1753" link="CC Adi 14.58" link_text="CC Adi 14.58">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 14.58|CC Adi 14.58, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The social structure allowing a man to marry more than one wife can be supported in this way. Generally in every society the female population is greater in number than the male population. Therefore if it is a principle in the society that all girls should be married, unless polygamy is allowed it will not be possible. If all the girls are not married there is a good chance of adultery, and a society in which adultery is allowed cannot be very peaceful or pure. In our Kṛṣṇa consciousness society we have restricted illicit sex. The practical difficulty is to find a husband for each and every girl. We are therefore in favor of polygamy, provided, of course, that the husband is able to maintain more than one wife.</p>
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<div id="CC_Madhya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Madhya-lila"><h3>CC Madhya-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCMadhya4183_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="780" link="CC Madhya 4.183" link_text="CC Madhya 4.183">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 4.183|CC Madhya 4.183, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Since there were restrictions against taking the sandalwood out of the Orissa province, the toll official confiscated the stock, but Mādhavendra Purī showed him the release papers given by the government and consequently escaped difficulties.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10138_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2217" link="CC Madhya 10.138" link_text="CC Madhya 10.138">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.138|CC Madhya 10.138, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“The mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is not restricted to the jurisdiction of caste and creed. Vidura was a śūdra, yet Kṛṣṇa accepted lunch at his home.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya11195_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2461" link="CC Madhya 11.195" link_text="CC Madhya 11.195">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 11.195|CC Madhya 11.195, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Since he was born in a Muslim family, Śrīla Haridāsa Ṭhākura could not enter the temple of Jagannātha due to temple restrictions. Nonetheless, he was recognized by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu as Nāmācārya Haridāsa Ṭhākura. Haridāsa Ṭhākura, however, considered himself unfit to enter the Jagannātha temple. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu could have personally taken Haridāsa Ṭhākura into the Jagannātha temple if He wished, but the Lord did not like to disturb a popular custom. Consequently the Lord asked His servant simply to look at the Viṣṇu wheel on top of the temple and offer obeisances (namaskāra). This means that if one is not allowed to enter the temple, or if he thinks himself unfit to enter the temple, he can look at the wheel from outside the temple, and that is as good as seeing the Deity within.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya17182_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3958" link="CC Madhya 17.182" link_text="CC Madhya 17.182">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.182|CC Madhya 17.182, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“It is a great fortune for me to offer You food. You are the Supreme Lord, and being in the transcendental position, You are not restricted in any way.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya228890_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5127" link="CC Madhya 22.88-90" link_text="CC Madhya 22.88-90">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 22.88-90|CC Madhya 22.88-90, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">According to Vedic civilization, one's association with women should be very much restricted. In spiritual life there are four āśramas—brahmacarya, gṛhastha, vānaprastha and sannyāsa. The brahmacārī, vānaprastha and sannyāsī are completely forbidden to associate with women. Only gṛhasthas are allowed to associate with women under certain very much restricted conditions—that is, one associates with women to propagate nice children. Other reasons for association are condemned.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya24250_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5566" link="CC Madhya 24.250" link_text="CC Madhya 24.250">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 24.250|CC Madhya 24.250, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">This is another good instruction to animal-killers. There are always animal-killers and animal-eaters in human society because less civilized people are accustomed to eating meat. In the Vedic civilization, meat-eaters are advised to kill an animal for the goddess Kālī or a similar demigod. This is in order not to give the animal unnecessary pain, as slaughterhouses do. In the bali-dāna sacrifice to a demigod, it is recommended to cut the throat of an animal with one slice. This should be done on a dark-moon night, and the painful noises expressed by the animal at the time of being slaughtered are not to be heard by anyone. There are also many other restrictions. Slaughter is allowed only once a month, and the killer of the animal has to suffer similar pains in his next life. At the present moment, so-called civilized men do not sacrifice animals to a deity in a religious or ritualistic way. They openly kill animals daily by the thousands for no purpose other than the satisfaction of the tongue. Because of this the entire world is suffering in so many ways. Politicians are unnecessarily declaring war, and according to the stringent laws of material nature, massacres are taking place between nations.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya25120_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5792" link="CC Madhya 25.120" link_text="CC Madhya 25.120">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 25.120|CC Madhya 25.120, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The cult of bhāgavata-dharma can be spread in all circumstances, among all people and in all countries. Many envious people accuse the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement of spoiling the rigidity of so-called Hinduism. That is not actually the fact. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu confirms that devotional service to the Lord—the cult of bhāgavata-dharma, which is now being spread as the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement—can be spread in every country, to every person, in any condition of life, and in all circumstances. Bhāgavata-dharma does not restrict pure devotees to the Hindu community. A pure devotee is above a brāhmaṇa; therefore it is not incompatible to offer the sacred thread to devotees in Europe, America, Australia, Japan, Canada, and so on. Sometimes these pure devotees, who have been accepted by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, are not allowed to enter certain temples in India. Also, some high-caste brāhmaṇas and gosvāmīs refuse to take prasādam in the temples of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Actually this is against the instruction of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Devotees can come from any country, and they can belong to any creed or race. On the strength of this verse, those who are actually devotees and followers of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu must accept devotees from all parts of the world as pure Vaiṣṇavas. They should be accepted not artificially but factually. One should see how they are advanced in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and how they are conducting Deity worship, saṅkīrtana and Ratha-yātrā. Considering all these points, the envious persons must henceforward refrain from their malicious atrocities.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya25121_7" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5793" link="CC Madhya 25.121" link_text="CC Madhya 25.121">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 25.121|CC Madhya 25.121, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The devotional activities of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement are completely transcendental to material considerations. As far as different faiths are concerned, religions may be of different types, but on the spiritual platform, everyone has an equal right to execute devotional service. That is the platform of oneness and the basis for a classless society. In his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya, Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura confirms that one has to learn from a bona fide spiritual master about religious principles, economic development, sense gratification and ultimately liberation. These are the four divisions of regulated life, but they are on the material platform. On the spiritual platform, the four principles are jñāna, vijñāna, tad-aṅga and tad-rahasya. Rules, regulations and restrictions are on the material platform, but on the spiritual platform one has to be equipped with transcendental knowledge, which is above the principles of religious rituals. Mundane religious activity is known as smārta-viddhi, but transcendental devotional service is called gosvāmi-viddhi. Unfortunately many so-called gosvāmīs are on the platform of smārta-viddhi, yet they try to pass as gosvāmi-viddhi, and thus the people are cheated.</p>
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<div id="CC_Antya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Antya-lila"><h3>CC Antya-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCAntya38_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="398" link="CC Antya 3.8" link_text="CC Antya 3.8">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 3.8|CC Antya 3.8, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">This was intolerable for Dāmodara Paṇḍita. He became greatly unhappy, but there was nothing he could say, for the boy would ignore his restrictions.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya314_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="404" link="CC Antya 3.14" link_text="CC Antya 3.14">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 3.14|CC Antya 3.14, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“My dear Lord, You can act as You please. No one can say anything to restrict You. Nevertheless, the entire world is impudent. People can say anything. How can You stop them?</p>
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<div id="CCAntya3213_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="601" link="CC Antya 3.213" link_text="CC Antya 3.213">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 3.213|CC Antya 3.213, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Kṛṣṇa, however, cannot tolerate any insults or blasphemy against a Vaiṣṇava. For example, Prahlāda Mahārāja was chastised by his father, Hiraṇyakaśipu, in so many ways, but although Prahlāda tolerated this, Kṛṣṇa did not. The Lord therefore came in the form of Nṛsiṁhadeva to kill Hiraṇyakaśipu. Similarly, although Śrīla Haridāsa Ṭhākura tolerated the insult by Gopāla Cakravartī, Kṛṣṇa could not. The Lord immediately punished Gopāla Cakravartī by making him suffer from leprosy. While instructing Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī about the many restrictive rules and regulations for Vaiṣṇavas, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has very vividly described the effects of offenses at the lotus feet of a Vaiṣṇava. Yadi vaiṣṇava-aparādha uṭhe hātī mātā ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.156|CC Madhya 19.156]]). Offending or blaspheming a Vaiṣṇava has been described as the greatest offense, and it has been compared to a mad elephant. When a mad elephant enters a garden, it ruins all the creepers, flowers and trees. Similarly, if a devotee properly executing his devotional service becomes an offender at the lotus feet of his spiritual master or another Vaiṣṇava, his devotional service is spoiled.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya895_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1647" link="CC Antya 8.95" link_text="CC Antya 8.95">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 8.95|CC Antya 8.95, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu behaved exactly like the Supreme Personality of Godhead, beyond the restriction of anyone's intelligence. He did whatever He liked, but all His activities were very beautiful.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya1259_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2129" link="CC Antya 12.59" link_text="CC Antya 12.59">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 12.59|CC Antya 12.59, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">A sannyāsī is restricted from even hearing a woman's name, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu conducted Himself very strictly in His vow. Parameśvara informed the Lord that his wife, Mukundāra Mātā, had come with him. He should not have mentioned her, and therefore the Lord hesitated for a moment, but due to His affection for Parameśvara, He did not say anything. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had known Parameśvara Modaka since His childhood, and therefore Parameśvara did not think twice about informing the Lord of his wife's arrival.</p>
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Born of... (CC)

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Acaryavan:

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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" class="section" sec_index="2" parent="compilation" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta"><h2>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta</h2>
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<div id="CC_Adi-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Adi-lila"><h3>CC Adi-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCAdi236_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="141" link="CC Adi 2.36" link_text="CC Adi 2.36">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 2.36|CC Adi 2.36, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“All the living beings within the material and spiritual worlds are ultimately born of You, for You are the Supersoul of them all.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi841_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1156" link="CC Adi 8.41" link_text="CC Adi 8.41">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 8.41|CC Adi 8.41, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Nārāyaṇī eternally eats the remnants of the food of Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura was born of her womb.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi10105_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1359" link="CC Adi 10.105" link_text="CC Adi 10.105">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.105|CC Adi 10.105, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī took permission from all the Vaiṣṇavas before writing Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī also gave him his blessings, but he requested him not to mention his name in the book. Therefore Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī has mentioned Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī only very cautiously in one or two passages of the Caitanya-caritāmṛta. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī has written in the beginning of his Tattva-sandarbha, "A devotee from southern India who was born of a brāhmaṇa family and was a very intimate friend of Rūpa Gosvāmī and Sanātana Gosvāmī has written a book that he has not compiled chronologically. Therefore I, a tiny living entity known as jīva, am trying to assort the events of the book chronologically, consulting the direction of great personalities like Madhvācārya, Śrīdhara Svāmī, Rāmānujācārya and other senior Vaiṣṇavas in the disciplic succession." In the beginning of the Bhagavat-sandarbha there are similar statements by Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī. Śrīla Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī compiled a book called Sat-kriyā-sāra-dīpikā, edited the Hari-bhakti-vilāsa, wrote a foreword to the Ṣaṭ-sandarbha and a commentary on the Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta, and installed the Rādhāramaṇa Deity in Vṛndāvana. In the Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā (184) it is mentioned that his previous name in the pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṇa was Anaṅga-mañjarī. Sometimes he is also said to have been an incarnation of Guṇa-mañjarī. Śrīnivāsa Ācārya and Gopīnātha Pūjārī were two of his disciples.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi10131_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1383" link="CC Adi 10.131" link_text="CC Adi 10.131">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.131|CC Adi 10.131, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In Jagannātha Purī Lord Caitanya lived at the house of Kāśī Miśra, who was the priest of the King. Later this house was inherited by Vakreśvara Paṇḍita and then by his disciple Gopālaguru Gosvāmī, who established a Deity of Rādhākānta there. The Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā (193) states that Kāśī Miśra was formerly Kubjā in Mathurā. Pradyumna Miśra, an inhabitant of Orissa, was a great devotee of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Pradyumna Miśra was born of a brāhmaṇa family and Rāmānanda Rāya of a non-brāhmaṇa family, yet Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu advised Pradyumna Miśra to take instruction from Rāmānanda Rāya. This incident is described in the Antya-līlā, Chapter Five.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi10145_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1396" link="CC Adi 10.145" link_text="CC Adi 10.145">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.145|CC Adi 10.145, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The twenty-second devotee, Kṛṣṇadāsa, was born of a pure and respectable brāhmaṇa family. While touring southern India, Lord Caitanya took Kṛṣṇadāsa with Him.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1217_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1492" link="CC Adi 12.17" link_text="CC Adi 12.17">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 12.17|CC Adi 12.17, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Commenting on verses 13 through 17, Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura gives an extensive description of the descendants of Advaita Ācārya. The Caitanya-bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa, Chapter One, states that Acyutānanda was the eldest son of Advaita Ācārya. The Sanskrit book Advaita-carita states, "Advaita Ācārya Prabhu had three sons who were devotees of Lord Caitanya. Their names were Acyuta, Kṛṣṇa Miśra and Gopāla dāsa, and they were all born of the womb of His wife, Sītādevī. Advaita Ācārya also had three more sons, whose names were Balarāma, Svarūpa and Jagadīśa. Thus there were six sons of Advaita Ācārya." Among the six sons, three were strict followers of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and of these three, Acyutānanda was the eldest.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1342_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1614" link="CC Adi 13.42" link_text="CC Adi 13.42">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 13.42|CC Adi 13.42, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Caṇḍīdāsa was born in the village of Nānnura, which is also in the Birbhum district of Bengal. He was born of a brāhmaṇa family, and it is said that he also took birth in the beginning of the fourteenth century, Śakābda Era. It has been suggested that Caṇḍīdāsa and Vidyāpati were great friends because the writings of both express the transcendental feelings of separation profusely. The feelings of ecstasy described by Caṇḍīdāsa and Vidyāpati were actually exhibited by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He relished all those feelings in the role of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, and His appropriate associates for this purpose were Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya and Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī. These intimate associates of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu helped the Lord very much in the pastimes in which He felt like Rādhārāṇī.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi13117_7" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1687" link="CC Adi 13.117" link_text="CC Adi 13.117">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 13.117|CC Adi 13.117, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Ḍākinī and Śāṅkhinī are two companions of Lord Śiva and his wife who are supposed to be extremely inauspicious, having been born of ghostly life. It is believed that such inauspicious living creatures cannot go near a nima tree. At least medically it is accepted that nima wood is extremely antiseptic, and formerly it was customary to have a nima tree in front of one's house. On very large roads in India, especially in Uttar Pradesh, there are hundreds and thousands of nima trees. Nima wood is so antiseptic that the Āyurvedic science uses it to cure leprosy. Medical scientists have extracted the active principle of the nima tree, which is called margosic acid. Nima is used for many purposes, especially to brush the teeth. In Indian villages ninety percent of the people use nima twigs for this purpose. Because of all the antiseptic effects of the nima tree and because Lord Caitanya was born beneath a nima tree, Sītā Ṭhākurāṇī gave the Lord the name Nimāi. Later in His youth He was celebrated as Nimāi Paṇḍita, and in the neighborhood villages He was called by that name, although His real name was Viśvambhara.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1778_8" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="2015" link="CC Adi 17.78" link_text="CC Adi 17.78">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.78|CC Adi 17.78, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">This is a verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.81.16) spoken by Sudāmā Vipra in the presence of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. This and the previous verse quoted from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam clearly indicate that although Kṛṣṇa is so great that it is not possible for anyone to satisfy Him, He exhibits His greatness by being personally satisfied even with one who is unqualified from so many angles of vision. Sudāmā Vipra was born in a family of brāhmaṇas, and he was a learned scholar and a class friend of Kṛṣṇa's, yet he considered himself unfit to be strictly called a brāhmaṇa. He called himself a brahma-bandhu, meaning "one born in a brāhmaṇa family but not brahminically qualified." Because of His great respect for brāhmaṇas, however, Kṛṣṇa embraced Sudāmā Vipra, although he was not a regular brāhmaṇa but a brahma-bandhu, or friend of a brāhmaṇa family. Murāri Gupta could not be called even a brahma-bandhu because he was born of a vaidya family and according to the social structure was therefore considered a śūdra. But Kṛṣṇa bestowed special mercy upon Murāri Gupta because he was a beloved devotee of the Lord, as stated by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. The purport of Śrī Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura's elaborate discussion of this subject is that no qualification in this material world can satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, yet everything becomes successful simply through development of devotional service to the Lord.</p>
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<div id="CC_Madhya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Madhya-lila"><h3>CC Madhya-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCMadhya6143_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1113" link="CC Madhya 6.143" link_text="CC Madhya 6.143">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.143|CC Madhya 6.143, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Taittirīya Upaniṣad (3.1) it is said, yato vā imāni bhūtāni jāyante: "The entire material cosmic manifestation is born of the Supreme Brahman." Also, the Brahma-sūtra begins with the verse janmādy asya yataḥ: ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1]]) "The Absolute Truth is that from whom everything emanates." (Bs. 1.1.2) That Absolute Truth is Kṛṣṇa. In the Bhagavad-gītā (10.8), Kṛṣṇa says, ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate: "I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me." Therefore Kṛṣṇa is the original Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Again, Kṛṣṇa states in the Bhagavad-gītā (9.4), mayā tatam idaṁ sarvaṁ jagad avyakta-mūrtinā: "By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded." And as confirmed in the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.37), goloka eva nivasaty akhilātma-bhūtaḥ: "Although the Lord always stays in His abode, Goloka Vṛndāvana, He is still all-pervading." His all-pervasive feature is understood to be impersonal because one does not find the form of the Lord in that all-pervasiveness. Actually, everything is resting on the rays of His bodily effulgence.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya10136_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2215" link="CC Madhya 10.136" link_text="CC Madhya 10.136">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 10.136|CC Madhya 10.136, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Both Kāśīśvara and Govinda were personal servants of Īśvara Purī. After Īśvara Purī’s demise, Kāśīśvara went to visit all the holy places of India. Following the orders of his spiritual master, Govinda immediately went to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu for shelter. Govinda came from a śūdra family, but because he was initiated by Īśvara Purī, he was certainly a brāhmaṇa. Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya here asked Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu why Īśvara Purī accepted a disciple from a śūdra family. According to the smṛti-śāstra, which gives directions for the management of the varṇāśrama institution, a brāhmaṇa cannot accept a disciple from the lower castes. In other words, a kṣatriya, vaiśya or śūdra cannot be accepted as a servant. If a spiritual master accepts such a person, he is contaminated. Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya therefore asked why Īśvara Purī accepted a servant or disciple born of a śūdra family.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya15264_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3458" link="CC Madhya 15.264" link_text="CC Madhya 15.264">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 15.264|CC Madhya 15.264, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">As far as killing the body of a brāhmaṇa is concerned, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.7.53) gives the following injunction concerning a brahma-bandhu, a person born of a brāhmaṇa father but devoid of brahminical qualities</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya19151_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="4390" link="CC Madhya 19.151" link_text="CC Madhya 19.151">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.151|CC Madhya 19.151, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">How one can become this fortunate can be seen in the life of Śrīla Nārada Muni. In his previous life he was born of a maidservant. Although he was not born into a prestigious position, his mother was fortunately engaged in rendering service to some Vaiṣṇavas. When these Vaiṣṇavas were resting during the Cāturmāsya period, the boy Nārada took the opportunity to engage in their service. Taking compassion upon the boy, the Vaiṣṇavas offered him the remnants of their food. By serving these Vaiṣṇavas and obeying their orders, the boy became the object of their sympathy, and by the Vaiṣṇavas' unknown mercy, he gradually became a pure devotee. In the next life he was Nārada Muni, the most exalted of Vaiṣṇavas and the most important guru and ācārya of Vaiṣṇavas.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 20.102|CC Madhya 20.102, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The threefold material miseries are miseries arising from the body and the mind, miseries arising from dealings with other living entities, and miseries arising from natural disturbances. Sometimes we suffer bodily when we are attacked by a fever, and sometimes we suffer mentally when a close relative dies. Other living entities also cause us misery. There are living entities born of the human embryo, of eggs, perspiration and vegetation. Miserable conditions brought about by natural catastrophes are controlled by the higher demigods. There may be severe cold or thunderbolts, or a person may be haunted by ghosts. These threefold miseries are always before us, and they entrap us in a dangerous situation. Padaṁ padaṁ yad vipadām ([[Vanisource:SB 10.14.58|SB 10.14.58]]). There is danger in every step of life.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya23117118_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5306" link="CC Madhya 23.117-118" link_text="CC Madhya 23.117-118">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 23.117-118|CC Madhya 23.117-118, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Thus in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the Viṣṇu Purāṇa and the Mahābhārata there are references to Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma being incarnations of a black hair and a white hair respectively. It is stated that Lord Viṣṇu snatched two hairs—one white and one black—from His head. These two hairs entered the wombs of Rohiṇī and Devakī, members of the Yadu dynasty. Balarāma was born from Rohiṇī, and Kṛṣṇa was born of Devakī. Thus Balarāma appeared from the first hair, and Kṛṣṇa appeared from the second hair. It was also foretold that all the asuras, who are enemies of the demigods, would be cut down by Lord Viṣṇu by His white and black plenary expansions and that the Supreme Personality of Godhead would appear and perform wonderful activities. In this connection, one should see the Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta, the chapter called Kṛṣṇāmṛta, verses 156–164. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has refuted this argument about the hair incarnation, and his refutation is supported by Śrī Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa's commentaries. This matter is further discussed in the Kṛṣṇa-sandarbha (29) and in the commentary known as Sarva-saṁvādinī, by Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 24.190|CC Madhya 24.190, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“"Women, fourth-class men, uncivilized hill tribes, hunters and many others born of low families, as well as birds and beasts, can engage in the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead—who acts very wonderfully—and follow the path of the devotees and take lessons from them. Although the ocean of nescience is vast, they can still cross over it. What, then, is the difficulty for those who are advanced in Vedic knowledge?"</p>
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<div id="CCAntya124_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="24" link="CC Antya 1.24" link_text="CC Antya 1.24">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 1.24|CC Antya 1.24, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">As will be evident from the following verses, the dog got the mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and was immediately promoted to Vaikuṇṭha to become an eternal devotee. Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has therefore sung, tumi ta' ṭhākura, tomāra kukkura, baliyā jānaha more (Śaraṇāgati 19). He thus offers to become the dog of a Vaiṣṇava. There are many other instances in which the pet animal of a Vaiṣṇava was delivered back home to Vaikuṇṭhaloka, back to Godhead. Such is the benefit of somehow or other becoming the favorite of a Vaiṣṇava. Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has also sung, kīṭa-janma ha-u yathā tuyā dāsa (Śaraṇāgati 11). There is no harm in taking birth again and again. Our only desire should be to take birth under the care of a Vaiṣṇava. Fortunately we had the opportunity to be born of a Vaiṣṇava father who took care of us very nicely. He prayed to Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī that in the future we would become a servant of the eternal consort of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Thus somehow or other we are now engaged in that service. We may conclude that even as dogs we must take shelter of a Vaiṣṇava. The benefit will be the same as that which accrues to an advanced devotee under a Vaiṣṇava's care.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 1.162|CC Antya 1.162, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“"My dear friend the flute, it appears that you have been born of a very good family, for your residence is in the hands of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. By birth you are simple and are not at all crooked. Why then have you taken initiation into this dangerous mantra that enchants the assembled gopīs?"</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 3.3|CC Antya 3.3, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In Jagannātha Purī there was a young boy who had been born of an Orissan brāhmaṇa but had later lost his father. The boy's features were very beautiful, and his behavior was extremely gentle.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 3.147|CC Antya 3.147, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Rāmacandra Khān was a great offender at the lotus feet of the Vaiṣṇavas and Viṣṇu. Just as Rāvaṇa, although born of a brāhmaṇa father, Viśvaśravā, was nevertheless called an asura or Rākṣasa because of his offenses against Lord Rāmacandra (Viṣṇu) and Hanumān (a Vaiṣṇava), so Rāmacandra Khān also became such an asura because of his offenses against Haridāsa Ṭhākura and many others.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya3221_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="609" link="CC Antya 3.221" link_text="CC Antya 3.221">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 3.221|CC Antya 3.221, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīla Advaita Ācārya was not afraid of the strict brahminical culture and customs of society. As stated in the śāstric injunctions, which are the true medium of evidence or proof, anyone can go back to Godhead, even if born of a low family.</p>
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<div id="CCAntya420_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="680" link="CC Antya 4.20" link_text="CC Antya 4.20">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 4.20|CC Antya 4.20, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"My Lord, please do not touch me. I fall at Your lotus feet. I am the lowest of men, having been born of a low caste. Besides that, I have infections on my body."</p>
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<div id="CCAntya910_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="1666" link="CC Antya 9.10" link_text="CC Antya 9.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 9.10|CC Antya 9.10, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">According to the opinion of some historians, Prahlāda Mahārāja was born in Tretā-yuga in the city of Multan, in the state of Punjab. He was born of Hiraṇyakaśipu, a king of the dynasty of Kaśyapa. Prahlāda Mahārāja was a great devotee of Lord Viṣṇu, but his father was very much against Viṣṇu. Because the father and son thus differed in their consciousness, the demon father inflicted all kinds of bodily pain upon Prahlāda. When this torture became intolerable, the Supreme Lord appeared as Nṛsiṁhadeva and killed the great demon Hiraṇyakaśipu.</p>
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Single moment (Letters)

2011-12-23T17:45:23Z

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<div id="Correspondence" class="section" sec_index="6" parent="compilation" text="Correspondence"><h2>Correspondence</h2>
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<div id="1968_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Correspondence" text="1968 Correspondence"><h3>1968 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoKrsnaDeviLosAngeles26January1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="34" link="Letter to Krsna Devi -- Los Angeles 26 January, 1968" link_text="Letter to Krsna Devi -- Los Angeles 26 January, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Krsna Devi -- Los Angeles 26 January, 1968|Letter to Krsna Devi -- Los Angeles 26 January, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So, at any circumstances you must not forget Krsna. I love you at my heart and therefore I gave you the name Krsna devi dasi. Don't forget Krsna even for a single moment; chant Hare Krsna loudly or slowly as it my be convenient. But don't forget to chant the Holy Name. I hope everything will be all right as soon as you come here with Danny, and I am awaiting your arrival with great interest. Hope you are well.</p>
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<div id="LettertoJaduraniSanFrancisco13April1968_1" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="146" link="Letter to Jadurani -- San Francisco 13 April, 1968" link_text="Letter to Jadurani -- San Francisco 13 April, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jadurani -- San Francisco 13 April, 1968|Letter to Jadurani -- San Francisco 13 April, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am in due receipt of your letter post-dated April 11, and this is the first time I received your letter finished in three lines, so I can understand that you have been depressed by receiving my last letter. The idea is that there is a story, "that, I have lost my caste and still my belly is not fulfilled." In India, it is the custom that the Hindus do not ever take meals in the house of a Mohammedan, Christian, or anyone other than the house of Hindu Brahmin. But a man was very hungry, and accidentally he took his food in the house of a Mohammedan. And when he wanted still more food, the man refused, as the man could not supply. So the Hindu man said, "Sir, I have lost my caste, and still I am hungry!" Similarly, if artistic pictures as they are approved by the people in general in this country can be sold quickly, I have not any objection to present our pictures in such a way. But I know that pictures in this country are sold not on the merit of the picture, but on the reputation of the artist. That system is also current in India. But to come to the point of a reputed artist will require long duration of time. And our time is very short. We have to finish our Krishna Consciousness during our lifetime, and we should not waste a single moment for anything else. According to Caitanya Caritamrta, a man is famous who is known as a great devotee of Krishna. So if there is not possibility of selling our pictures immediately on presentation, I do not think there is any necessity to improve our artistic craftsmanship. We should be satisfied with our pictures hanging in our different temples. But we may not sacrifice our valuable time for becoming famous artists so that pictures may be sold like hotcakes.</p>
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<div id="1970_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Correspondence" text="1970 Correspondence"><h3>1970 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoGurudasaLosAngeles16April1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="237" link="Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 16 April, 1970" link_text="Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 16 April, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 16 April, 1970|Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 16 April, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding the three couples staying with George, I think if there is no contemplation of starting a new Radha Krsna temple there, simply to take advantage of staying there is no good. Temporarily we may take advantage of it, but as soon as possible the devotees must live together and execute our Krishna Conscious business in right earnest. So I hope you shall altogether consult and do the needful. Not a single moment should be wasted—that is very important thing. We shall not act anything which has no connection directly with Krishna Consciousness business.</p>
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<div id="LettertoYamunaLosAngeles17May1970_1" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="311" link="Letter to Yamuna -- Los Angeles 17 May, 1970" link_text="Letter to Yamuna -- Los Angeles 17 May, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Yamuna -- Los Angeles 17 May, 1970|Letter to Yamuna -- Los Angeles 17 May, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So the program which you have listed for the students and your daily schedule are very nice, and your schedule is fully approved. Just see that everything—Aratrik, Bhoga offering, etc. is done strictly on time. When every moment one is engaged it is called avyarta kalatvam which means not to spoil even a single moment of life without Krsna Consciousness.</p>
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<div id="LettertoHimavatiLosAngeles30July1970_2" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="456" link="Letter to Himavati -- Los Angeles 30 July, 1970" link_text="Letter to Himavati -- Los Angeles 30 July, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Himavati -- Los Angeles 30 July, 1970|Letter to Himavati -- Los Angeles 30 July, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You are lying for some time in the hospital bed and still you are not wasting a moment of your time. This attitude is very good. This is Krsna Consciousness—not to waste even a single moment without serving the Lord in some way or other. So you have made these very, very nice dresses for Krsna and Radharani although you are so much inconvenienced by your injury. I am very, very glad that you have got this feeling to not waste even a single moment in the service of the body and mind but to utilize very carefully every moment of life in the loving service of the Lord.</p>
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<div id="1971_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Correspondence" text="1971 Correspondence"><h3>1971 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoTamalaKrsnaLondon1September1971_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="438" link="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- London 1 September, 1971" link_text="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- London 1 September, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tamala Krsna -- London 1 September, 1971|Letter to Tamala Krsna -- London 1 September, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding collections, all this collection must go to the building fund. Now we have got good beginning. R.D. Birla has given Rs 25,000/; B.M. Birla another Rs 25,000/ and Bajoria will contribute also. In this way if you simply catch 100 contributors each paying Rs 25,000/ then immediately our Mayapur scheme is successful. To find out such 100 men will not be at all difficult because it is headed by Birla and others will follow. So we have to pick them out throughout India—Calcutta, Bombay, Delhi and Madras. If we spend 25 to 30 lakhs Rupees then our Mayapur program will be a great success. So we have to do it. It will be a world center for teaching spiritual life. Students from all over the world will come and we shall revolutionize the atheistic and communistic tendency of rascal philosophers. So we must be responsible for this great task. Not for a single moment shall we be without ISKCON thought. That is my request to you all.</p>
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<div id="1975_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Correspondence" text="1975 Correspondence"><h3>1975 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoGovardhanaMexicoCity15February1975_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="132" link="Letter to Govardhana -- Mexico City 15 February, 1975" link_text="Letter to Govardhana -- Mexico City 15 February, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Govardhana -- Mexico City 15 February, 1975|Letter to Govardhana -- Mexico City 15 February, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Your list of qualifications for choosing candidates for 2nd initiation is very good. Regarding Rudra dasa, he can worship Gaura-Nitai in his home. The most important element for their worship is the chanting of the Hare Krishna Mantra. They can have at least one arati and whatever foodstuffs are prepared can be offered. Regarding my books, everyone should read. I am also reading. Everyone should be engaged 24 hours. That is the sum and substance. How much you should read and how much you should do other types of service, that has to be decided by each individual devotee. Eating and sleeping should be minimized—not a single moment should be misused.</p>
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<div id="1977_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="12" parent="Correspondence" text="1977 Correspondence"><h3>1977 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoGurudasaCalcutta5February1977_0" class="quote" parent="1977_Correspondence" book="Let" index="47" link="Letter to Gurudasa -- Calcutta 5 February, 1977" link_text="Letter to Gurudasa -- Calcutta 5 February, 1977">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gurudasa -- Calcutta 5 February, 1977|Letter to Gurudasa -- Calcutta 5 February, 1977]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Your suggestion that the devotees visiting Vrindaban engage in preaching and chanting and not in gossiping is very good. I have instructed that this be taken to the GBC and implanted. We have sacrificed our life for Krsna's service, where is there scope for sleeping and gossiping? You can see in my example, not a single moment is wasted. This idleness is the business of the karmis. They can be seen sitting in the park gossiping, "my son-in-law said this," "this man has cheated me." But it has no place in devotional service, so your suggestion is well made.</p>
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Controlled by... (Letters)

2011-12-23T16:48:34Z

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<div id="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Correspondence" text="1947 to 1965 Correspondence"><h3>1947 to 1965 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoRPrakashAllahabad22June1951_0" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="10" link="Letter to R. Prakash -- Allahabad 22 June, 1951" link_text="Letter to R. Prakash -- Allahabad 22 June, 1951">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to R. Prakash -- Allahabad 22 June, 1951|Letter to R. Prakash -- Allahabad 22 June, 1951]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The Vedic culture determines the standard of social upliftment in terms of the degree of self-realization and as such the social division was estimated accordingly in terms of goodness (intelligence and higher learning), passion (martial spirit to lord it over the world), passion-cum-ignorance (the spirit of productivity) and ignorance (the spirit of passive acceptance of being controlled by the laws of material nature).</p>
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<div id="1968_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Correspondence" text="1968 Correspondence"><h3>1968 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoPurusottamaMontreal14June1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="202" link="Letter to Purusottama -- Montreal 14 June, 1968" link_text="Letter to Purusottama -- Montreal 14 June, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Purusottama -- Montreal 14 June, 1968|Letter to Purusottama -- Montreal 14 June, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In the transcendental world there is no influence of maya or time. So there is full freedom of activities but because there is no maya, therefore everyone is engaged in his natural activities or spontaneously serving Krishna in different relationships. Just like hand is related with the whole body for some particular purpose, the leg is related with the whole body for some particular purpose, the ear is related with the whole body for some particular purpose, and so on. Similarly all living entities being eternally part and parcel of the Supreme Lord they are engaged in His service for some particular purpose. So there are varieties of engagements but they are all united with the central Figure, Lord Krishna. So this is in answer to your question; "On Krishna loka are all of Krishna's pastimes with the living entities controlled by Krishna, or do the living entities have choice in this matter? In other words, is one's rasa governed by strict laws determined by Krishna or is there free choice aside from the free choice of choosing Krishna or maya?"</p>
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<div id="1972_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Correspondence" text="1972 Correspondence"><h3>1972 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoTribhuvanathaLosAngeles16June1972_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="325" link="Letter to Tribhuvanatha -- Los Angeles 16 June, 1972" link_text="Letter to Tribhuvanatha -- Los Angeles 16 June, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tribhuvanatha -- Los Angeles 16 June, 1972|Letter to Tribhuvanatha -- Los Angeles 16 June, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Because there is close proximity of many students, the important thing to give them is our book and literature. They are interested to get knowledge, but the materialistic knowledge will lead them astray from real goal of their intelligence, and all of their credits in education will only add up to so many zeros. But if you yourself are very much well-acquainted with our Krishna philosophy, you will be able to convince them that if they make Krishna or God the center of their learning process, never mind they're scientists, chemists, politicians, whatever they may be, if they put Krishna in front of so many zeros they will come out with a huge sum and their life will be very much perfect. If you require assistance for preaching to the student class, I think Revatinandana can come there and preach very nicely to the scholarly class in their own language. Now in our philosophy classes, each day I am discussing one of your western philosophies and so far we have discussed many, many philosophers like Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Marx, like that, and now we are discussing Darwin and other scientists from your western countries. Because they have missed the central point that we are not the controllers of nature, rather we are controlled by nature, and because they do not see that there is a Supreme Controller who is controlling even the nature, therefore their vast research and display of intelligence is only so much waste of time. It is just like a child. A child may play with the imitation of another child and the child will hold the doll and play with it as if it is real. But the parents who gave the child the doll, they know good and well the child is nonsense but they tolerate and enjoy sometimes. Just like my sisters used to prepare for me some imaginary puris from their toys of very small cooking things, and I used to pretend I was eating them and we were quite happy that this was the same thing just like our parents were doing. We did not know we were nonsense, one nonsense cooking, another nonsense eating, but our father knew we were nonsense. So it is like that in this material world, everyone is acting more or less like children clinging to some play things provided by the Father and taking them very seriously. But when we become actually wise and see things from the point of view of our Father and take his instruction, then we make progressive advancement out of the childish nonsense state of life or life in this material world.</p>
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<div id="LettertoHamsadutaLosAngeles14September1972_1" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="495" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 14 September, 1972" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 14 September, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 14 September, 1972|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Los Angeles 14 September, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have read your account of the incidents of fighting with the hoodlums with great concern. After all, this world is full of darkness and controlled by the demons, so difficulties are there certainly. But if we stick to the lotus feet of Krsna, these difficulties will be over, just like a child jumps over the pit caused by the hoof of a calf. Krsna fought with so many demons so fighting is not prohibited if it is for the good cause. But one thing is, these are young boys, so actually if you approach them humbly and you yourself go to their leaders and speak to them nicely about Krsna Consciousness they will agree to leave us alone, that I think. But if you make big armed confrontation and show of strength there will be continuous fighting more and more. Better to resolve the whole situation by approaching their leaders at once and reconciling everything with them by bringing them prasadam and other nice gifts and giving them our philosophy, and if they are willing to hear it, also teach them how to chant Hare Krsna mantra. These are innocent young boys, they are simply misled, so you go to them and give them the right information and then you will have nothing more to fear from them. But if you think buying a shotgun is necessary, that is all right, we have to defend Krsna's temple if it comes to it.</p>
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<div id="1973_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Correspondence" text="1973 Correspondence"><h3>1973 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoGovindaBhaktivedantaManor20July1973_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="238" link="Letter to Govinda -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 20 July, 1973" link_text="Letter to Govinda -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 20 July, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Govinda -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 20 July, 1973|Letter to Govinda -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 20 July, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Of course we have to control the mind, and I have already instructed you and all my students that the restless fickle mind can only be controlled by putting the mind to the lotus feet of Krsna, and that can best be done by chanting Hare Krsna mantra, and there is no alternative in this age. By chanting without offenses, the devotee cries to Radharani and Krsna to please lift him out of the material energy and put him into the spiritual energy, which is devotional service.</p>
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<div id="1975_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Correspondence" text="1975 Correspondence"><h3>1975 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoMahamsaHonolulu3June1975_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="296" link="Letter to Mahamsa -- Honolulu 3 June, 1975" link_text="Letter to Mahamsa -- Honolulu 3 June, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mahamsa -- Honolulu 3 June, 1975|Letter to Mahamsa -- Honolulu 3 June, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated 24-5-75 and have noted the contents. Regarding Acyutananda's preaching, what is the use of criticizing Sai Baba and creating some enemies? Do not do this in public meetings. It is different to do it in a private meeting. You can discuss all details about the farm with Hamsaduta and then do the needful. He will be coming there very soon. Anyway I am forwarding your report to him for his information. Regarding registration with the Endowments dept., you can discuss this with Gopala Krishna.</p>
<p>I hope this meets you in good health.</p>
<p>Your ever well-wisher,</p>
<p>A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami</p>
<p>N.B. We're not going to be controlled by the endowment dept. That is not good. They are all worldly men. Why should we be controlled by them? If possible start a center in</p>
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<div id="1976_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Correspondence" text="1976 Correspondence"><h3>1976 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoRamesvaraVrindaban26September1976_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="534" link="Letter to Ramesvara -- Vrindaban 26 September, 1976" link_text="Letter to Ramesvara -- Vrindaban 26 September, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Ramesvara -- Vrindaban 26 September, 1976|Letter to Ramesvara -- Vrindaban 26 September, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding the Fiji situation, your solution to amend the constitution is nice. Let Vasudeva become president. Your idea to sell BTGs, collect donations, hold kirtana and distribute prasada profusely, yes, do that. I was given the impression that this temple was to be controlled by the Punja family and our devotees would not have any hand. This was the impression given. We want that a very nice relationship be kept with Vasudeva. It was wanted that he follows our instructions including following the GBC, so that everything can go on nicely. Let one brother be president and one treasurer, and give one good man who can act as secretary. I have not lost confidence in Vasudeva. Now the matter is clear—I'm very much pleased with him so let him remain president and that will please him more, and his brother treasurer with one secretary. If the temple remains permanently in ISKCON Fiji's name and cannot be sold, that is very nice; it is not for selling, it is for improving more and more.</p>
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<div id="LettertoVasudevaVrindaban3November1976_1" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="623" link="Letter to Vasudeva -- Vrindaban 3 November, 1976" link_text="Letter to Vasudeva -- Vrindaban 3 November, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Vasudeva -- Vrindaban 3 November, 1976|Letter to Vasudeva -- Vrindaban 3 November, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding the Fiji situation, your solution to amend the constitution is nice. Let Vasudeva become president. Your idea to sell BTGs, collect donations, hold kirtanas and distribute prasada profusely, yes, do that. I was given the impression that this temple was to be controlled by the Punja family and our devotees would not have any hand. This was the impression given. We want that a very nice relationship be kept with Vasudeva. It was wanted that he follows our instructions including following the GBC, so that everything can go on nicely. Let one brother be president and one treasurer, and give one good man who can act as secretary. I have not lost confidence in Vasudeva. Now the matter is clear; I'm very much pleased with him so let him remain president and that will please him more, and his brother, treasurer, with one secretary. If the temple remains permanently in Iskcon Fiji's name and cannot be sold, that is very nice; it is not for selling, it is for improving more and more.</p>
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<div id="Correspondence" class="section" sec_index="6" parent="compilation" text="Correspondence"><h2>Correspondence</h2>
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<div id="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Correspondence" text="1947 to 1965 Correspondence"><h3>1947 to 1965 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoMrBaileyAllahabad2October1951_0" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="12" link="Letter to Mr. Bailey -- Allahabad 2 October, 1951" link_text="Letter to Mr. Bailey -- Allahabad 2 October, 1951">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mr. Bailey -- Allahabad 2 October, 1951|Letter to Mr. Bailey -- Allahabad 2 October, 1951]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Philosophical ways are practical and it is no use simply by indulging in speculation without any practical result just like to keep a cow without any milk. We must always seek a practical value from philosophy for the benefit of all. The mission with which you have started your service inspired me to help you as far as possible and I thought it fit to inform you that your mission can be well guided by the practical philosophy of the Bhagavad-gita. If you do not wish to have it that is a different question. If you put up a programme acceptable to one and all there is no necessity of patronizing a particular ism. A common formula can be of practical use both for India or others. As such you can have practical solutions of all problems such as social, religious, cultural, political, economic as well as agricultural and industrial—from the Bhagavad-gita.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSirDelhi15April1961_1" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="52" link="Letter to Sir -- Delhi 15 April, 1961" link_text="Letter to Sir -- Delhi 15 April, 1961">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sir -- Delhi 15 April, 1961|Letter to Sir -- Delhi 15 April, 1961]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I wish, therefore, that in this congress a combination of the most intelligent personalities of all nations shall unite together and teach the people in general, ignorant in spiritual knowledge, that</p>
<p>(1) Human life is based on spiritual ground</p>
<p>(2) Spirit is separate superior element than matter and</p>
<p>(3) by spiritual culture of life only the human society can be brought into perfection.</p>
<p>This perfection of life will help also in building up the next progressive life after death. The human society is meant for liberal cooperation for this movement of all round perfection of the human society without any bar for class or nation or dogmatic faith. Spiritual culture is not dogmatic faith but it is based on philosophy, reason and culture. This can be introduced very easily through convenient methods of music, dance and refreshment which are acceptable by all grades of human being in all parts of the world.</p>
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<div id="1968_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Correspondence" text="1968 Correspondence"><h3>1968 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoBrahmanandaLosAngeles1February1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="38" link="Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 1 February, 1968" link_text="Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 1 February, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 1 February, 1968|Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 1 February, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Today I have received one urgent letter from Acyutananda Brahmacari. He is doing very nicely with preaching work at Kanpur. He has held many seminars, at different places, and the educated circle (lawyers, teachers, etc.) are taking part in his preaching work. Kanpur is the next important city after Calcutta and Bombay. Therefore his decision to start immediately one center at Kanpur is acceptable.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMadhusudanaLosAngeles1February1968_1" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="40" link="Letter to Madhusudana -- Los Angeles 1 February, 1968" link_text="Letter to Madhusudana -- Los Angeles 1 February, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Madhusudana -- Los Angeles 1 February, 1968|Letter to Madhusudana -- Los Angeles 1 February, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Yes, the analogy concerning the spiritual body of the Sat-Guru is acceptable, but not in the material sense. In the material world, the gold box and the gold plated box may be different in price, but in spiritual world there is no such distinction. There the gold box and the gold plated box are the same. In material world there is difference between a sweeper and a cooker; in the spiritual world a person who sweeps the Temple and a person who worships in the Temple are all the same. That is absolute knowledge.</p>
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<div id="LettertoPradyumnaLosAngeles17February1968_2" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="66" link="Letter to Pradyumna -- Los Angeles 17 February, 1968" link_text="Letter to Pradyumna -- Los Angeles 17 February, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Pradyumna -- Los Angeles 17 February, 1968|Letter to Pradyumna -- Los Angeles 17 February, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding the book list: "Lord Gauranga" by S.K. Ghose and Veder Panchaya by Bon Maharaja are useless and you may not get them. The other books and the Gaudiya paper are acceptable. If you have free use of Xerox machine you may make copies, of some of the smaller works. Regarding Bhakti Puri, Tirtha Maharaja, they are my God-brothers and should be shown respect. But you should not have any intimate connection with them as they have gone against the orders of my Guru Maharaja.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMrDavidJExleyLosAngeles21February1968_3" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="74" link="Letter to Mr. David J. Exley -- Los Angeles 21 February, 1968" link_text="Letter to Mr. David J. Exley -- Los Angeles 21 February, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mr. David J. Exley -- Los Angeles 21 February, 1968|Letter to Mr. David J. Exley -- Los Angeles 21 February, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This is only one instance among many in which ___ in contact with our philosophy build nice character ___ the basic principles of sinful activities. If ___ for spreading this movement, and for understanding ___ of this philosophy by the United Nations, we shall ___ render the greatest service to the humanity in the ___ establishing peace and prosperity. The process ___ is very simple, and is acceptable by any member of ___ irrespective of caste, creed, or color, or nation ___ Gaudiya Math Institutions, each of them having ___ are our sister establishments, and we can disseminate ___ amounts of information through them to vast number ___ in India, and throughout the East.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBalaiSanFrancisco12March1968_4" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="111" link="Letter to Balai -- San Francisco 12 March, 1968" link_text="Letter to Balai -- San Francisco 12 March, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Balai -- San Francisco 12 March, 1968|Letter to Balai -- San Francisco 12 March, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Householders may wear dhotis in the Temple, or as they like, but not of the saffron color. They may wear white, yellow, or whatever. Outside the Temple they may wear American gentleman's dress, with Tilaka, flag, and beads. It is not required to wear dhotis, as this society does not understand, so outside the Temple dress suit is more socially acceptable. If they so desire, for ceremony, they can dress in dhotis for Kirtana.</p>
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<div id="LettertoJaduraniSanFrancisco8April1968_5" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="138" link="Letter to Jadurani -- San Francisco 8 April, 1968" link_text="Letter to Jadurani -- San Francisco 8 April, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jadurani -- San Francisco 8 April, 1968|Letter to Jadurani -- San Francisco 8 April, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You are already a great artist. You don't want to become a great artist to satisfy the senses of the public. If your present paintings are not acceptable to the general public, I do not mind; they are fools. You continue trying your best to make your pictures as far they can be nice looking, but not to satisfy the senses of the rascal public.</p>
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<div id="LettertoRayaramaMontreal12June1968_6" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="195" link="Letter to Rayarama -- Montreal 12 June, 1968" link_text="Letter to Rayarama -- Montreal 12 June, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rayarama -- Montreal 12 June, 1968|Letter to Rayarama -- Montreal 12 June, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I thank you very much for your letter of June 9th, 1968, and it is very kind of you that you are seriously thinking about Krishna Consciousness movement and trying to engage yourself more and more seriously. My blessings are always with you. You are very sincere boy trying your best to serve Krishna and by His Grace you are quite fit for this business, and considering all these points, I have entrusted Back To Godhead in your hand. Because this paper is the beginning of my spiritual life. During the time of my Guru Maharaja's passing away, His last instruction was to me that "You try to preach whatever you have learned from me in English, and that will do good to you and the people who will hear you." This instruction was given to me in 1936, and I started this paper in 1944. So during my householder life I was printing this paper and almost distributing free, and some of them were paying me subscription, and some of them not. But I was trying my best at my cost. You have seen the old articles about my tendency in this regard, and please try to follow this principle and improve the condition of this paper as you think best. You have got full liberty to make it acceptable to the general public, keeping pace with our principles of Krishna Consciousness. And as I have told you several times that I am awaiting for the day when this paper will take the shape of Life magazine or similar other magazines, in the matter of its popularity. From India this paper has been brought to America, with this hope that American young boys like you will take interest in spreading this sublime gospel of Krishna Consciousness.</p>
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<div id="LettertoRukminiLosAngeles19December1968_7" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="505" link="Letter to Rukmini -- Los Angeles 19 December, 1968" link_text="Letter to Rukmini -- Los Angeles 19 December, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rukmini -- Los Angeles 19 December, 1968|Letter to Rukmini -- Los Angeles 19 December, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So far as offering to Krishna apple cider, this can be done only if it is prepared by devotees. These food manufacturers do not take proper precautions in cleanliness nor do they have devotion to Krishna in their labors so it is not very acceptable offering. If you can make this preparation yourself then it will be alright.</p>
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<div id="1969_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Correspondence" text="1969 Correspondence"><h3>1969 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoBrahmanandaLosAngeles18January1969_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="41" link="Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 18 January, 1969" link_text="Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 18 January, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 18 January, 1969|Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 18 January, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have seen the lotus sign with the word Iskcon on it, and I think that it is not acceptable. This is because one does not know where to start reading the letters. If you like to make a lotus flower for this, I have enclosed one picture which I have drawn and which you may consider. But Radha-Krishna must also appear on this letterhead.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKirtananandaLosAngeles14February1969_1" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="122" link="Letter to Kirtanananda -- Los Angeles 14 February, 1969" link_text="Letter to Kirtanananda -- Los Angeles 14 February, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Kirtanananda -- Los Angeles 14 February, 1969|Letter to Kirtanananda -- Los Angeles 14 February, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding your insurance policy, I do not wish to engage you in litigation; that is not a sannyasi's business. In India, since I left, people have grabbed my money up to many thousands of rupees. That Hitsaran took away 2000 Rs, the landlord has taken away more than 2000 Rs, but what can I do? If I go to litigation I will have to put myself in so many anxieties. It is better to forget. If peacefuly you can draw the money from your father that is all right. I do not know what kinds of devious means you want to use in this connection, but any means, if it does not put you into difficulties, will be acceptable.</p>
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<div id="LettertoAdvaitaLondon19November1969_2" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="686" link="Letter to Advaita -- London 19 November, 1969" link_text="Letter to Advaita -- London 19 November, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Advaita -- London 19 November, 1969|Letter to Advaita -- London 19 November, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I thank you very much for your ketter dated November 17, 1969 with two enclosures of paper samples. So far as the paper for colored pictures, 80 lbs., and dust jacket, 100 lbs., I think it is quite suitable. But so far as the papers for the inside of the book, the paper which you have indicated, 50 lbs., is not suitable. It must be either 60 or 70 lbs. If 70 lbs. is too costly, then 60 lbs. is tolerable. But the paper must be white just like TLC. The samples you have sent are not so nice a white color. So far as the other estimates, I think they are all right. The total expenditure submitted by you, $7,939—or say $8,000, is</p>
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<div id="1971_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Correspondence" text="1971 Correspondence"><h3>1971 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoProfessorGGKotovskyBombay23April1971_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="181" link="Letter to Professor G. G. Kotovsky -- Bombay 23 April, 1971" link_text="Letter to Professor G. G. Kotovsky -- Bombay 23 April, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Professor G. G. Kotovsky -- Bombay 23 April, 1971|Letter to Professor G. G. Kotovsky -- Bombay 23 April, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">My life is dedicated to spreading this Krishna culture all over the world. I think if you give me a chance to speak about the great Krishna culture and philosophy in your country, you will very much appreciate the simple programme with great profit. This culture is so well planned that it would be acceptable by any thoughtful man throughout the whole world.</p>
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<div id="LettertoDrBaliLondon24August1971_1" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="411" link="Letter to Dr. Bali -- London 24 August, 1971" link_text="Letter to Dr. Bali -- London 24 August, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Dr. Bali -- London 24 August, 1971|Letter to Dr. Bali -- London 24 August, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding purchasing your house, from your description it appears very nice house and the price offered by you may be acceptable, but we are collecting money locally for the local expenditures. So do you think if I go and attend the pandal festival Rs. 5 lacs can be raised? I do not know the price of the house, neither I know what funds will be raised in my presence but I can promise that whatever funds can be raised on that occasion I shall pay to you for your house and we can immediately start a center there. If you think it is feasible then I shall cancel my other programs in Africa and other parts of the world, then I shall go directly to India by the end of September or the first week of October as described by you.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMadhudvisaLondon2September1971_2" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="440" link="Letter to Madhudvisa -- London 2 September, 1971" link_text="Letter to Madhudvisa -- London 2 September, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Madhudvisa -- London 2 September, 1971|Letter to Madhudvisa -- London 2 September, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Why don't you take the opinion of our life members whether we should go outside Bombay like Chembur or Santa Cruz? In Santa Cruz there is a nice house for sale. Similarly we can get a place in Chembur for a nominal price only. But I do not think that outside Bombay city will be acceptable by you all. I also think in that way, that outside Bombay it will be not so gorgeous. The Nepeansy Road apartment is also good, so if possible why not send me a descriptive chart of the apartment.</p>
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<div id="1972_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Correspondence" text="1972 Correspondence"><h3>1972 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoHamsadutaJaipur20January1972_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="54" link="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Jaipur 20 January, 1972" link_text="Letter to Hamsaduta -- Jaipur 20 January, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Hamsaduta -- Jaipur 20 January, 1972|Letter to Hamsaduta -- Jaipur 20 January, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So far translating, I have made Mandali Bhadra as Chief of translating department. He shall translate comfortably and all other translations must be checked and edited and approved by him, with grammatical corrections. It is not that we may present anything crude translation and that is acceptable. No, even though the transcendental subject matter of Vedic literature is still spiritually potent despite the crudest translation, still, because we have got facility to make it perfect, that is our philosophy. When I translated Srimad-Bhagavatam I had not the facility so you may notice grammatical discrepancies. But because Mandali Bhadra is now Head of the translating department you have got all facility to translate our books in perfect German language.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKarandharaTamalaKrsnaBhavanandaGirirajaVrindaban19October1972_1" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="544" link="Letter to Karandhara, Tamala Krsna, Bhavananda, Giriraja -- Vrindaban 19 October, 1972" link_text="Letter to Karandhara, Tamala Krsna, Bhavananda, Giriraja -- Vrindaban 19 October, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Karandhara, Tamala Krsna, Bhavananda, Giriraja -- Vrindaban 19 October, 1972|Letter to Karandhara, Tamala Krsna, Bhavananda, Giriraja -- Vrindaban 19 October, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have read the clause 11, in the original Agreement for Sale and I do not find any mention of there being any six month time limit for obtaining the Charity Commissioner's approval, as you have told Syamasundara.. So there is only some delay, that's all. That will not be sufficient grounds for him to rescind the contract. Rather, our position is very strong so long we are in possession and we have paid him the earnest money and more. So best thing is to consult Mulla and Mulla and proceed accordingly. If there is need to pay off the twelve lakhs, we can do it by giving him four lakhs immediately and the balance eight lakhs we shall arrange with Mr. Jayan very soon. But Mulla and Mulla have said it is suicidal unless there is settlement of the Chhaganlal business first. So we shall not be willing to pay the twelve lakhs unless this matter of Chhaganlal's lawsuit and the registration of the conveyance deed and payment of capital gains tax by Mr. Nair are peacefully settled without any risk to us. Try to fix up some arrangement acceptable to Mr. Nair for paying him, but we shall not risk that we may lose everything to Chhaganlal or some other of Mr. Nair's cheating dealings.</p>
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<div id="1975_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Correspondence" text="1975 Correspondence"><h3>1975 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoGopalaKrsnaBerkeley17July1975_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="414" link="Letter to Gopala Krsna -- Berkeley 17 July, 1975" link_text="Letter to Gopala Krsna -- Berkeley 17 July, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gopala Krsna -- Berkeley 17 July, 1975|Letter to Gopala Krsna -- Berkeley 17 July, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So on experimental stage we can make them the exclusive sales agent for six months to one year, if they can guarantee a certain reasonable amount of monthly order. If the agree to Rs. 1 lakh per month than for the first four months they must pay us Rs. 50,000/- per month and then Rs. 1 lakh per month upon delivery. Yes, you can print small books as much as possible. The paper sample you sent in your last letter is all right if it is acceptable for the Indian book market. If the sales will go on, even if the paper is inferior, then it is all right. S. Chand Co. they are able to sell 1 lakh of Rs. of our books per month. They can do this if it is organized properly. But, they should not get any commission on books we sell ourselves, nor will we sell our books at prices below that of the retail shops.</p>
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<div id="1976_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Correspondence" text="1976 Correspondence"><h3>1976 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoSriSNNayarCalcutta16January1976_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="49" link="Letter to Sri S. N. Nayar -- Calcutta 16 January, 1976" link_text="Letter to Sri S. N. Nayar -- Calcutta 16 January, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sri S. N. Nayar -- Calcutta 16 January, 1976|Letter to Sri S. N. Nayar -- Calcutta 16 January, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I beg to thank you for your letter dated 21st December, 1975. I have gone through your translation, but it is not acceptable. We have already settled with a Vrindaban gentleman. I am returning herewith your manuscript. Thanking you.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMrDhawanVrindaban2April1976_1" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="214" link="Letter to Mr. Dhawan -- Vrindaban 2 April, 1976" link_text="Letter to Mr. Dhawan -- Vrindaban 2 April, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mr. Dhawan -- Vrindaban 2 April, 1976|Letter to Mr. Dhawan -- Vrindaban 2 April, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I beg to acknowledge receipt of your kind invitation dated Chandigarh, 19-3-76, addressed to my Bombay address. I am very glad to learn that you are endeavouring to understand the prime goal of life, without which the facility of human life becomes futile. I have just come back from Delhi yesterday and I'm preparing for going to Australia by the 10th April, therefore, I am very sorry that I must inform you I will not be able to attend the function, however, I am sending herewith the answers to your questions, as far as I know. As we have received this knowledge from the greatest authority, Krishna, these answers will be acceptable in every sphere of spiritual activity.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Saurabha -- Los Angeles 7 June, 1976|Letter to Saurabha -- Los Angeles 7 June, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Your plan for holding marriages in the theater, and on the theater roof will be acceptable. What will be the expected income?</p>
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